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OOMBING MAGHINE. 1% 254,714. Patented Mar. 7.1882.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ALBERT SMITH, OF BRADFORD, COUNTY OF YORK, ENGLAND.

COMBlNG-MACHINE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 254,714, dated March'7, 1882. Application filed October 20, 1881. (No model.) Patented inFrance August 23, 1881, and in Belgium August 27, 1881.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ALBERT SMITH, a subject of the Queen of GreatBritain and Ireland, and residing at Bradford, in the county of York,England, have invented certain Improvements in Combing-Machines, ofwhich the following is a specification.

This invention relates to certain improvements to that class ofcombing-machines known as Nobles combs, and has special reference to theLetters Patent granted to me, N 0. 243,640, dated June 28, 1881; and ithas for its object the combing out of the beard, so that the additionaldrawing-off rollers can nip hold of it to better advantage; and itconsistsin mounting a short comb between the ordinary and additionaldrawing-ofl" rollers.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a diagram plan of one-half ofthe large-circle comb of a Nobles combing-machine, andshows the positionin which I mount my short comb. Fig. 2 is a cross-section through thelargecircle comb, and a side elevation of my improvement. Fig. 3 is aplan of my improvement; and Fig. 4 is a view of Fig. 2, looking in thedirection of the arrow.

A represents the usual large-circle comb, and B one of the smallcircles, the vertical comb-teeth on these circles being represented onlyon portions of the combs. The power for driving the operative parts ofthe machine is derived from vertical shafts S in the center ofsmall-circle combs B, the large and small circle combs and the ordinarydrawing-off rollers, 0, being driven from these shafts in the usualmanner, as shown, for instance, in VVhiteheads British Patent No. 530 of1869--and the drawing-off rollers at each side of the machine are drivenfrom the before-mentioned vertical shafts S through the usual train ofgears beneath the machine, as indicated by the dotted circles. A wheel,6, on shaft S is geared with a similar wheel, 8, on the lower end of theshaft of one of the drawing-oif rollers, E, through a pinion, 7, motionbeing communicated from wheel 8 through the pinions 9 and 10 to agcar-wheel,11, on the lower end of one of the drawing-off rolls 0.

' In order to reverse the direction of the fibers forming the beard, sothat the additional rollerscan nip hold of it to better advantage, Iplace immediately behind the rollers O a short comb, which is actuatedin the following manner: The perpendicular rotating shaft G is driven bypinion '14 on the shaft of one of the rollers 0. At thetop ofperpendicular shaft G, I secure eccentric H, around which is placed aclip, H, having a long projecting guiderod, J, which is carried byswivel-bearing K.

At the opposite side of eccentric clip H, and.

at right angles with rod J, are two vertical projections, L and L,through which holes are bored, so that the spindles M and M of comb Nmay slide easily therein. The eccentric H revolving causes the comb N torotate elliptically, and when the teeth of comb N are near the insidediameter of largecircle comb A the spindle M of short comb, resting onincline of cam P, drops from the top of incline at P to the bottom ofincline, the teeth of the comb N, passing through the beard, and,traveling for a short distance along with the large circle, A, the combN will begin to leave the large circle A and comb out the beard for theadditional rollers k to nip hold anddraw the fiber out from the teeth ofthe large circle, as described in the before-mentioned specification.The cam P is level for about one-quarter of the circumference on theface where the end of spindle M travels, and when the teeth of smallcomb N are clear of the beard the spindle will begin to rise, theincline of circular cam P raising the short comb until the points of theteeth are above the beard in the circle, and when the spindle M hasreached the summit of incline it drops, the teeth of short comb passingthrough the beard close to thelarge circle, which is combed out, asbefore described. Thus, by the short comb revolving and the spindle Mcontinuously traveling up the incline of cam P, the beard is combed outas it leaves the ordinary drawing-off rollers round the whole of thecircumference of the largecircle comb.

What I claim as my invention is 1. The combination of cam P, eccentric,and means for rotating the same with clip H, having guide-rod andbearing therefor, and short comb N, carried by said clip.

2. The combination of the cam P, eccentric,

and means for rotating the same with clip H, having guide-rod andbearing and carrying scribing witnesses. projections L L, and a comb, N,having spin- ALBERT SMITH. dles adapted to said projections, allsubstan- Witnesses: 5 tially as set forth. v JOHN WAUGH,

In testimony whereof I have signed my name JOHN GILL to thisspecification in the presence of two sub-

